Apparatus for continuous evaporation or distilliation, especially with vacuum



Nov. l, 1932. I o. AN'sELuccl Y 1,885402 evapora fed wafer z Patented Nov. l, 1932 y i UNITED STATES PATENT oFFicE OTTORINO ANGELUCCI, OF ROME, ITALY APPARATUS FOR CONTINUOUSl EVAPORATION OR I'WISTILLATION, ESPECIAJLY WlTH VACUUM Application led .Tune 28., 1930, Serial No. 464,606, and in Germany J'uly 8, 1929.

In order to concentrate liquids easily alterquantity of heat carried by vapor or hot water able by heat a process must be used by which ows inthe direction of the arrows. a high evaporation speed at very low teni- The liquid to be concentrated is admitted perature may be obtained Cand it is necessary to the tubes of the evaporator by means of 6 that the time of heating the liquid to be contubes 7 and passes through them in a con- 50 cent1-ated is' very Short-, trolled quantity so that after passing through Such a process may be carried out byl the. whole length of the tubes it shows the means of the apparatus subject matter of desired degree'of concentration, and by means my invention ofwhich a preferred modificaof tube 8 is discharged from the apparatus. 1U tion is shown by way of example in the an- The liquid takes only a minute to How 5 5 nexed drawing. along the tubes so that it 1s heated only It is known that the velocity of evaporaduring this little time. tion depends on the quantityr of heat theliq- 1n this apparatus from which the gases uid is capable of absorbing in a unit of time, are extracted by means of a vacuum pump the l5 and that the absorption of heat is the more vapors generated in the .evaporator pass w rapid the greater the diierence of temperathrough holes and are immediately conture between the heating medium and the delised by the condenser 3..,Thereforeavery heated liquid, and the greater the velocity rapid evaporation is obtained at a pressure with which the vapors produced are elimi- Corresponding to the tension of vapor of nated. liquid condensed on condenser (Watts prina5 It is also known that" the boiling temper- Clple). ature of a liquid depends on the pressure to The condenser may be easily kept at a very which the liquid is submitted, and therefore 10W temperature' by admitting cold water an apparatus for concentrating at a low presthereto. Very low pressures may therefore sure, liquids alterable by heat, must have be obtained, and concentration temperatures 7u means for supplying in a continuous way cve-I1 of 20 without appreciably decreasa great quantit of heat to the liquid which 111g the velocity of evaporation.

is concentratedy; and a means for rapidly If the evaporator were distant from the condensing the vapors formed and obtain- COIldGIlSeI, th? COIlCleIlSltiOn of the vapors ing a very high vacuum would not be immediate, because it is known 7:

The apparatus Shown in the drawing comthat in an ambient of constantl pressure the prises a cylindrical receptacle l closed by a tlm@ the "apolneed fof PaSSmg from the over in which both the evaporator 2 and one to the other is proportional to the square condenser 3 are placed in close juxtaposition. of the dlstance betweell them' Thus also 1n 'lhe receptacle is connected toa vacuum pump @n.se Offb? WPOIS hmm?? to overcome l ce1" 5 by means of lines Connected to Outlet tube 6 tain friction while passing from the evapof1 c0ndensed evaporated water. Jpater to tllie condenser, a delay in condensa- The evaporator 2 comprises two spinny ion n ou i oeuil, i. e. theie would be conditions similar to those.l existing in the known o wound tubes PIOYlded 1n the Pari'I away frfml concentration a paratuses, and it would not 85 the @Olldensela WI hQIeS through Whlch be possible to o tain a rapid evaporation at the vapors of the liquid being concentrated tommy-amplis inferior to 40 C pass without appreciable friction. In the lVheii concentrating liquids in vacuo at interior of these tubes forming the evaportemperatures inferior to 40 C. a v ery irreg- 46 ator, tubes 5 are provided in which a large ular amltumultuous boiling occurs,especially f tube so that the evaporator can contain theI small quantity of liquid flowing therein even if boiling be violent.

In passing through the evaporator the liquid is concentrated, and as a consequence the boiling temperature is raised. For obtaining the velocity of evaporation equal at all points of the evaporator, it is necessary that in relation to the rise of boiling point of liquid also the temperature of the heating medium should rise, and for thisI reason the heating is to be effected by counter-currents.

Both in.A concentrators with bundles of tubes acting at low temperature, or, which is the same, at low pressure, and in an evaporator such as used with my apparatus, the liquid to be concentrated does not come into direct contact with the heating tubes, but between the latter and the liquid a vapor jacket is formed which has a higher temperature than that of the liquid which is being concentrated.

In concentrators with ,tube bundles the vapor passes continuously along with the liquid into the expansion chamber in which it is cooled rapidly and acquires the same temperature of the liquid, while in myl apparatus it does not expand at all and immediately passes to the condenser at the same temperature at which it is generated, thereby destroying the foam eventually being formed in the evaporator tubes.

My above described apparatus may also be used for distilling liquids of difficult disillation and as a heat recovering concentrator.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention and in what manner the same is4` to be performed, I declare that what I claim is:

e l. A device for evaporating and forvdistilling liquids in vacuo with simultaneous condensation of the vapor in the vacuum chamber comprising an airtight receptacle, an

evaporator located inv said air tight receptacle having the form of a perforated tube in which the liquid to be evaporated flows, heating tubes within said evaporator for heating said liquid, a condenser having the said evaporating system. arranged in juxtaposition thereto, the surface of said condenser being considerably larger than the heating surface of the heating tubes so that a high vacuum may be obtained within said chamber.

2. A device for eva'porating and for distilling liquids in vacuo with simultaneous condensation of the vapor lin the vacuum chamber comprising an air tight receptacle,

OTTORINO ANGELUCCI.

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